Search Results: Mystery--Suspense--Thriller (paperback) from Augustine Funnell Books

New York : Bantam A1550, 1957. Book. Illus. by Tom Hill (cover illustration). Very Good to Fine. Paperback. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Paperback original of an interesting collection of terror/suspense stories, including work by A. E. Sandeling writing A. E. Shandeling ("Return of the Griffins "), John Steinbeck ("The White Quail"), Lord Dunsany ("The Two Bottles of Relish"), Mary Norton ("Paul's Tale"), W. Somerset Maugham ("Lord Mountdrago"), Gloria Neustadt Biggs ("The Cat"), Karen Blixen writing as Isak Dinesen ("The Young Man with the Carnation"), Robert W. Cochran ("Foot of the Giant"), Jerry Wexler ("I Am Edgar"), Ivan Bunin ("The Calling Cards"), Whit Burnett ("The Night of the Gran Baile Mascara"), May Sarton ("The Screen"), Angus Wilson ("Totentanz"), William B. Seabrook ("The Salamander"), Dorothy Canfield Fisher… Read More

Gold Medal s898, 1959. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A private-eye thriller featuring Tony Costaine and Bert McCall, those "lovers of bourbon, bagpipes, and blondes." Spine cocked, light crosscrack, moderate general wear..

White Circle 268, Book Company of America 009, Gold Medal R2037, Avon S379 Book. Good or better. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Four titles featuring a variety of miscreants committing an impressive collection of despicable acts generally frowned upon by polite society, but usually given only a little attention by the people in power so long as the despicable acts are forced upon the poor and powerless. No loose pages, missing words or kidnapped punctuation..

New York: Pocket 568, 595, 626, 784 Book. Illus. by Louis Glanzman, William Wirts, Bernard Safran, Cass Norwaish (cover illustrations). Good or better. Softcovers. Various editions.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Four titles by four giants in the mystery field, the first three featuring a recurring character (Sir Henry Merrivale, Doug Selby, and Inspector Roderick Alleyn, for the first three, respectively), with the fourth (originally published under the title 'Brat Farrar') a one-shot. 230, 182, 280, and 248 pages, respectively. A couple are in great shape, and a couple only ok, but since none of the words have fallen out, they're all entirely readable..

Pocket 242, 561, 334, 368 Book. Good or better. Softcovers. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A collection of four mysteries by the creator of Perry Mason. This group includes one Mason, a pair of District Attorney Doug Selby titles, and one story featuring Terry Clane. Sorry, but no substitutions of titles..

Dell 829, Avon T-254, Dell 621, Avon 335, Graphic 46 Book. Good Reading Copies. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Killers and schemers and thieves galore in this five-book lot of vintage mysteries, one of which (the Reilly) is a Dell map-back. None of these titles can boast being in collectible condition, but none of the words have died, either. As with many titles from this era, careful reading is suggested. Sorry, but no substitutions of titles..

Pocket 257, Bantam 312, Pocket 693, Pocket 245, Pocket 248 Book. Good Reading Copies. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A five-book lot of classic mystery stories, all entirely serviceable, although none are in collectible condition. We offer an ever-growing selection of multi-packs in numerous categories. Sorry, but no substitutions. .

Avon 636, 648, Dell First Edition 30, Dell 330, 498 Book. Good Reading Copies. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Five mysteries by four much-respected practitioners of the form. This multi-pack contains two map-backs. All have seen better days, and with careful handling will see more days just like this one. Sorry but no substitutions..

Penguin 78, Bantam N8446, White Circle 268, White Circle 211, Penguin 530 Book. Good or better. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. We have here a Philip Trent mystery, a Charlie Chan case, a Nigel Strangeways battle against a secret society, and a pair of WWII spy thrillers, all by renowned writers, most of whose work has stood the test of time. None in collectible condition, but since no words have fallen out, all are in perfectly serviceable shape. Offered as a lot of five titles, with no substitutions. .

New York: Avon nn, Popular Library 70, Dell 747, Dell 851, Berkley G-145 Book. Reading copies (Fair to Good). Paperbacks. 1sts thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Five stories of money, mystery, murder, and a whole bunch of other words that don't start with "m". The Biggers title features Charlie Chan, the Freeman gives us Dr. Thorndyke, the Quentin offers a Peter Duluth mystery, the Simenon presents what the New York Times called "a first-rate study in abnormal psychology", and the Nielsen details the story of a guy offered $5,000 to marry a beautiful woman (who, naturally, is reported missing the next day). I haven't read this one just yet, but the opening to Chapter One will make sure that I do: "The way Casey figured it, life was a sour deal. It was something with a beginning you didn't ask for, an ending you couldn't help, and nothing in between that would sell even at a charity auction. But it came in a package, like a Christmas tie, and once the package was opened you were stuck with it." These… Read More

Popular Library 133, Pocket 60, Popular 122, Berkley D2027, Dell 24 Book. Reading copies (Fair to Good). Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A five-book lot of mysteries/thrillers, two of which are collections of stories featuring the authors' best-known characters (Chesterton's Father Brown, and Freeman's Dr. Thorndyke), and one of which (Leroux) is a map-back. While they're all intact, careful reading is suggested so that they remain so. Sorry, but no substitutions..

Pocket 269, 507, 43, 676, Dell 314 Book. Various conditions. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A five-book lot of classic mysteries featuring Philip Trent; Sir Henry Merrivale; a certain 19th-century murderer known as the Ripper; a group "of people thrown together by violence"; and security officer Gil Vine (a map-back). All five are G or better. Sorry, but no substitutions..

New York: Bantam 14646, 23995, 08472, 22530, 24959 Book. Good or better. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Five mysteries (four of them Nero Wolfe) by a giant in the field. Sorry, but no substitutions..

New York: Dell 594, Dell First Edition A111, Dell U333, 900, 476 Book. Good Reading Copies. Paperbacks. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Five vintage titles of suspense and murder, one featuring Jupiter Jones (the Fuller title), and another showcasing Johnny Liddell (the Kane), with the Gordon giving us the best cover blurb of the bunch: "His business was worth a million dollars, but his private life wasn't worth a damn." General wear to all five, but, with a bit of conscientious handling, still sound enough for a few more readings. Sorry, but no substitutions..

New York: Dell 505/749/D298/850/662 Book. Illus. by Bob Stanley, Carl Bobertz, Victor Kalin, William Rose, James Meese (cover illustrations). Good or better. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Five titles with a focus on America's favourite past-time: murder. In these titles we have murder in Natchez, murder on the West Coast, murder on Broadway, murder in Berlin, and murder in New York City. If that doesn't seem like quite enough murder, don't worry: the Second Amendment pretty much guarantees that there'll be a steady supply of guns, and thus a continuing stream of murders. (Interesting fact #1: if you selected 100 Americans at random, between them they would own 120.5 guns. Interesting fact #2: every 30.5 minutes someone in America is murdered. It took me +/- 30 minutes to create this listing. I hope that the murder victim during that half-hour wasn't someone you loved.) The Roth title is in G only condition, the rest better.… Read More

Avon F-114, Bantam 1226, 1638, A1690, Berkley Medallion G530 Book. Good or better. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Six stories in five books, all of them offering the reader a healthy dose of murder, evil, murder, blood, murder, cops, murder, killers, murder, violence, murder, jealousy, murder, and Tokyo (oh -- did I mention murder? There's also murder.). These are paperbacks of the vintage variety, which in this instance means that a couple of them, even if read carefully, may still see you end up with a handful of numbered sheets of paper. .

Zenith nn, Starbooks nn, Red Seal/Gold Medal 14, Paperback Library 53-640, Crest 179 Book. Good Reading Copies. Paperbacks. 1sts thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A 5-item lot of mystery/suspense/thriller titles featuring, in order: a "woman-prone" fellow who is also "a misfit, a man without a future" plunged "into a life which combines sybaritic luxury and hair-trigger danger"; a guy who "took another man's wife" and who subsequently finds himself stalked with "frenzied vengeance" after the spurned husband takes exception to his former wife banging someone else (spouses are funny like that, especially the male ones); a sleazebag politician (oh wait, that's redundant) who uses woman as "his ladder to power"; a U.S. director of security playing "doomsday poker with a sinister foe" after a traitor offers the secret of "a new, catastrophic 'terminal' weapon" to a foreign power; and finally… Read More

Coronet 15197, 1974. Book. About Very Good. Paperback. 4th Coronet edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The 6th Matt Helm title. Helm and a "battle-scared girl who couldn't stand being touched by men," tackle a crazy Nazi, an also-crazy guerrilla general and a foreign agent of the shapely variety. Moderate general wear..

New York : Dell First Edition B203, 1961. Book. Illus. by Robert McGinnis (cover illustration). Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Paperback original. Before he became well-known as a political slimebag involved in disgraced former president Richard Nixon's Watergate nightmare, Hunt wrote a number of books, some of them hard-boiled detective stories such as this Steve Bentley thriller in which an "oh-so-friendly neighbor in a black negligee " invites our intrepid C.P.A. over for a nightcap, but before the poor fellow can cap his night, she goes and gets herself strangled (pretty inconsiderate of her, I'd say). Tension ensues. (Hunt also wrote quite a few books after his release from prison.) 192 pages. Moderately cocked, quite mild edgewear, light tanning. A fairly nice copy..

Macfadden 75-363, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Reissue of the 1955 Popular Library edition. "Her profession was love, but all she knew was hate." (I think I've dated this girl. A sad book, really, because there's this television producer named Gus, who is pushed off a 22-storey building and falls to his death--although come to think of it, a television producer falling 22 storeys can't be all *that* bad, no matter *what* his name is). Tight and internally clean, w/rubbing and light spotting to front cover, light scratching to back cover..